The CPP said that based on NOC reports, the NPA
mounted at least 710 military actions of varying scale in 2019 that killed at
least 651 government troops and wounded more than 465 others.
The number of killed and wounded is the equivalent
of around 30 platoons or two battalions of its enemy troops, the group said.
KAPATID said the three unnamed political detainees are showing common Covid-19 symptoms like fever, headaches, cold, cough and body weakness—the same symptoms for the respiratory disease which has already killed 45 people in the country as of March 25, including nine doctors.
The United Nations (UN) welcomed the temporary ceasefire order of the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), saying the group’s positive response to the call
Various organizations held noise barrages in several communities around Metro Manila Thursday, March 26, demanding free mass testing for health workers and patients with corona virus disease (Covid-19) symptoms.
Old methods of emergency response no longer apply. BY ICA FERNANDEZ & ABBEY PANGILINAN WITH DR. MIGUEL DOROTAN, NASTASSJA QUIJANO, PATRICIA MARIANO, ZAXX ABRAHAM, CLARA
“As advised by the NDFP Chief Political Consultant [Jose Maria Sison] and relayed by the NDFP Negotiating Panel to the NDFP National Council, the broad masses of the people themselves need to refrain from launching tactical offensives to gain more time and opportunity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and to look after the health and over-all welfare of the people in both urban and rural areas,” the order reads.
“The NDFP and the broad masses of the people themselves need to refrain from launching tactical offensives to gain more time and opportunity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic and to look after the health and over-all welfare of the people in both urban and rural areas,” Sison said.
“Ceasefire or not, NPA Red fighters have already been directed to step up efforts to render social, economic, medical and public health services to the people. In particular, units of the NPA are working with local people’s health committees. Red fighters and the people are coordinating efforts to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 in their areas,” the underground party said in reaction to Duterte’s unilateral ceasefire announcement Wednesday, March 17.
Sinasabi ng gobyerno na manaliti lamang sa mga bahay ang taumbayan dahil sa banta ng COVID-19 sa bansa. Ngunit daing ng 107 pamilya sa Barangay 432 Zone 44 District 4 Sampaloc, Manila na paano sila papasok ng bahay kung wala naman silang bahay.
“As Founding Chairman of the Communist Party of the Philippines and Chief Political Consultant of the National Democratic Front of the Philippines, I honor Comrade Julius Soriano Giron with the Red salute and express the highest respect and commendation for his martyrdom and for his long record as a communist leader and revolutionary fighter in the Filipino people’s struggle for national liberation and democracy,” Sison said.
